Living · Family · Côte-des-Neiges · October 12, 2026
Schools, parks, commutes, space and price: what Côte-des-Neiges offers a family, and what it has to accept, said before the visit.
Living in Côte-des-Neiges with a family. The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board; the Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique and several private colleges are on the territory. Mount Royal (the park, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, the trails) is the neighbourhood's great space; Parc Kent, Parc Martin-Luther-King and Parc Van Horne are the neighbourhood parks, with the sports centre and pool. The blue line serves Côte-des-Neiges, Université-de-Montréal and Snowdon (transfer to the orange line); the orange line stops at Snowdon, Côte-Sainte-Catherine and Plamondon, then Namur. Pro: Universities, hospitals and the metro on foot, the mountain and Mount Royal Park, and an affordable condo for a first-time buyer. Con: Dense and noisy on the arteries, with hard parking near the hospitals and the university. For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon. Less so for those who want a calm, homogeneous street or easy parking: Côte-des-Neiges is dense, lively and noisy on its arteries.
Côte-des-Neiges for a family: what really matters, schools, parks, commutes, space and price, taken from our neighbourhood guide and from what families tell us after the visits. The figures are those published by the APCIQ for the second quarter of 2026; nothing is embellished.
The school catchment of a specific address cannot be guessed: it is checked with the school service centre before offering, and subsidized daycare spots are requested early, everywhere in the region.
For a family, the commute is measured at rush hour, with the detour by the daycare or the school: do it once on a Tuesday morning before deciding.
The QPAREB's CDN/CSL sector shows a single-family home at $1,164,500 (+10 % year over year, +20 % in five years) sold in 29 days, one of the island's shortest delays, with 92 active listings; these are mostly the houses of Côte-Saint-Luc, Hampstead and Snowdon. For a family that buys, our pages average selling price of homes in Côte-des-Neiges, down payment to buy in Côte-des-Neiges, salary to buy in Côte-des-Neiges and first-time home buyer in Côte-des-Neiges give the benchmarks; what is for sale today is in house for sale in Côte-des-Neiges.
For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon. Less so for those who want a calm, homogeneous street or easy parking: Côte-des-Neiges is dense, lively and noisy on its arteries. The detail, pros and cons, is in Living in Côte-des-Neiges: the pros and cons and the comparisons with the neighbouring areas in Outremont Or Cote Des Neiges and Cote Des Neiges Or Ndg Montreal. The other areas of the region are ranked in the best neighbourhoods for families, Montreal.
The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board; the Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique and several private colleges are on the territory. Mount Royal (the park, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, the trails) is the neighbourhood's great space; Parc Kent, Parc Martin-Luther-King and Parc Van Horne are the neighbourhood parks, with the sports centre and pool. For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon.
Dense and noisy on the arteries, with hard parking near the hospitals and the university. Less so for those who want a calm, homogeneous street or easy parking: Côte-des-Neiges is dense, lively and noisy on its arteries.
The QPAREB's CDN/CSL sector shows a single-family home at $1,164,500 (+10 % year over year, +20 % in five years) sold in 29 days, one of the island's shortest delays, with 92 active listings; these are mostly the houses of Côte-Saint-Luc, Hampstead and Snowdon. The price of a specific house is set on the comparable closed sales on its street, which the team pulls from the Centris system.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Côte-des-Neiges guide and from what families tell us after the visits; no figure is added to those published by the APCIQ. All 53 neighbourhoods are gathered in living with a family in Greater Montreal.
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Published September 7, 2026 by the Loaa & Manseur team, the number 1 team at RE/MAX Platine in 2024 and 2025, 6th RE/MAX team in Quebec, 15th in Canada and in the global top 50 according to the official RE/MAX ranking. Tell us about your project.
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